In New york, the top-model Jennifer Tree is drugged in a night-club in Soho and kidnapped with her dog. Jennifer awakes in a cell in a basement and is submitted to psychological and physical tortures by her twisted abductor. When she meets Gary on the next cell, the stranger protects her and she feels attracted by him. When they manage to escape from their imprisonment, Jennifer discovers the truth about her sick kidnapper.

Ben: Play them... don't... Gary: [finishing his brother's sentence] ... Play with them

Ben: Why do good things happen to bad people? That's the mystery.

Ben: [to his younger brother] You're the insider, I'm the outsider.

Gary: [refers to Jenn after she couldn't get the shotgun to shoot, as he cocks the gun] You should've cocked it sweetheart.

Ben: Another night of hero sex?

Movie Trivia:

The initial advertising campaign for Captivity featured a multi-paneled poster. The first panel was labeled "Abduction," featuring actress Elisha Cuthbert appearing petrified, her mouth covered by a black gloved hand. The second panel was labeled "Confinement" and showed Cuthbert behind a chain-link fence with a bloody thumb poking through. The third was labeled "Torture" and featured Cuthbert on her back, her face hidden within a white cast and red tubes going up her nose. The fourth panel was labeled "Termination" and featured what appeared to be a limp body hanging over a table. The poster was placed on several billboards across Los Angeles, causing a significant uproar and resulting in many complaints. Distributor Lionsgate - who were not involved in the film's advertising campaign and claimed to know nothing of the poster in question before the posters were distributed - and producer After Dark Films ultimately decided to remove the controversial poster from the advertising campaign and took the billboards down.

A great part of the film was filmed in Russia, where nearly all the crew spoke only Russian. Elisha Cuthbert says that only a handful of the cast were there from America, and formed a tight-knit group since they spoke no Russian